• Rose on Property and Literature: the View From Shakespeare's Venice @uarizonalaw @ArsScripta @@ElgarPublishing @Elgar_Law @

    Updated: 2024-02-29 17:48:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture February 29, 2024 Rose on Property and Literature : the View From Shakespeare's Venice uarizonalaw ArsScripta ElgarPublishing Elgar_Law Carol M . Rose , University of Arizona College of Law , is publishing Property and Literature : the View From Shakespeare’s Venice in The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature(Robert Spoo Simon Stern eds . 2024 Here is the abstract . This entry explores property issues in The Merchant of Venice , and in particular the Merchant’s posture toward important claims that have been made for property since the Enlightenment : that secure property enhances social wealth , that property protects individual autonomy , and that property permits the

  • Announcement: Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law

    Updated: 2024-02-26 18:22:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture February 26, 2024 Announcement : Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law From the University of Osnabrueck Summer : Institute Announcement Rights without Borders Subjects , Precarity , Agency 9th International Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law https : eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com url=http 3A 2F 2Fwww.osi.uni-osnabrueck.de 2F data=05 7C02 7Ct.giddens 40dundee.ac.uk 7C44117da70d1a48f991ee08dc332730c3 7Cae323139093a4d2a81a65d334bcd9019 7C0 7C0 7C638441491381021989 7CUnknown 7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0 3D 7C60000 7C 7C 7C sdata=yontL 2BS 2FLckhoQZRk3ypa2IOCGJ0u7d 2FJRsrhFPcYyM 3D reserved=0

  • Legal-Literary Imagining: An Early Modern Workshop, 11 March 2024. 10.30am – 6.00pm. New College, Oxford & St John’s College, Oxford

    Updated: 2024-02-16 01:10:00
    : : , . , , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture February 15, 2024 Legal-Literary Imagining : An Early Modern Workshop , 11 March 2024. 10.30am 6.00pm . New College , Oxford St John’s College , Oxford L iterary-Legal Imagining is a one–day workshop , hosted by New College and St John’s College , and supported by CEMS and the English Faculty . This workshop will explore the kinds of research questions that arise from the pervasive overlapping of the legal and the literary in early modern life and . texts Registration is free but essential for catering purposes . If you would like to attend , please contact daniel.haywood sjc.ox.ac.uk to register by 28 February 2024. More about the workshop here . nbsp Posted by Christine

  • Davies on Square Dancing and a Cat at the Supreme Court @horacefuller @georgemasonlaw

    Updated: 2024-02-13 19:18:00
    Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law, has published Square Dancing and a Cat at the Supreme Court: Justice Harry A. Blackmun’s First Moment in Charge at 11 Journal of Law 1 (2023). Here is the abstract. Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun served on the Supreme Court of the United States from June 1970 to August 1994. He had mixed feelings about the Chief Justices with whom he served. How might a Blackmun Chief Justiceship have been different? Download the essay from SSRN at the link.

  • Pardo on Rethinking Antebellum Bankruptcy @WashULaw @COLawReview

    Updated: 2024-02-13 00:20:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture February 12, 2024 Pardo on Rethinking Antebellum Bankruptcy WashULaw COLawReview Rafael I . Pardo , Washington University , St . Louis , School of Law , is publishing Rethinking Antebellum Bankruptcy in volume 95 of the University of Colorado Law Review . Here is the abstract . Bankruptcy law has been repeatedly reinvented over time in response to changing circumstances . The Bankruptcy Act of 1841—passed by Congress to address the financial ruin caused by the Panic of 1837—constituted a revolutionary break from its immediate predecessor , the Bankruptcy Act of 1800, which was the nation’s first bankruptcy statute . Although Congress repealed the 1841 Act in 1843, the legislation

  • LED Blues

    Updated: 2024-02-09 23:07:11
    We are nearly almost totally unaware of the technological marvels that surround us. But we should be in awe of them. They don’t magically fall unbidden from the skies like manna from heaven. Real people have to work really hard, often in obscurity, to bring those amazing things to life. Today I learned the details … Continue reading "LED Blues"

  • Call For Papers, Authoring Slavery, Aarhus University, June 18-19, 2024

    Updated: 2024-02-08 22:22:00
    : , , , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture February 8, 2024 Call For Papers , Authoring Slavery , Aarhus University , June 18-19, 2024 From Symposium organizers , Aarhus University , Denmark Dear , colleagues Please find attached a call for papers for our 2 day seminar on Authoring slavery’ which we are organizing at Aarhus University , from 18-19th of June 2024. Here is the link to the event on our website : Authoring slavery The deadline for paper proposals is March 1, 2024. Please send a 300-500 words abstract , with name , email and institutional affiliation : to Pelckmans hum.ku.dk and madsbaggesgaard cc.au.dk You may also consider to propose an article for our upcoming publication on Slavery , Authorship and

  • Pozen on The Common Law of Constitutional Conventions @ColumbiaLaw @CalifLRev

    Updated: 2024-02-08 21:44:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture February 8, 2024 Pozen on The Common Law of Constitutional Conventions ColumbiaLaw CalifLRev David Pozen , Columbia University Law School , is publishing The Common Law of Constitutional Conventions in the California Law Review . Here is the abstract . Professor Jill Lepore's Jorde lecture paints a rich portrait of state constitutional conventions as engines of democratization during the 1800s and issues a dire warning about the United States' ongoing amendment drought . Citing their unfamiliarity , however , Lepore declines to consider federal constitutional conventions as a possible corrective . In this response Essay , I argue : first , that Lepore's marginalization of Article V's

  • ChatGPT AI

    Updated: 2024-02-08 13:31:13
    Artificial intelligence is perhaps the most transformative technological advancement of our time, poised to revolutionize industries, reshape societies, and redefine the very fabric of human existence. It is fundamentally changing the way we work, communicate, and interact with the world around us, pushing the boundaries of what we thought possible and opening up new frontiers … Continue reading "ChatGPT AI"

  • War is hell

    Updated: 2024-02-07 21:04:55
    War is hell, as many people who have been in wars and witnessed its horrors have concluded. That includes General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820 – 1891) of the US civil war Union army who wrote “War is cruelty and you cannot refine it.” But people don’t seem to get it. Those who start wars are … Continue reading "War is hell"

  • Simon on More True Confessions of a Legal Writing Professor @uarizonalaw

    Updated: 2024-02-06 21:16:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture February 6, 2024 Simon on More True Confessions of a Legal Writing Professor uarizonalaw Diana Simon , University of Arizona College of Law , is publishing More True Confessions of a Legal Writing Professor : Down the Rabbit Hole with Doe in Arizona Attorney . Here is the abstract . This , at times , irreverent , article is about the practice of using Doe parties in litigation . First , the history of the practice is covered . Second , expansion of the practice is covered along with the reasons why it is disfavored and what the legal test is for allowing fictitious names in litigation , Finally , the article addresses the wide range of names used for pseudonyms beyond just Jane and

  • Marxism

    Updated: 2024-02-06 08:30:14
    Richard Wolff, professor emeritus, is a celebrated Marxist.[1] Being a Marxist is not a crime, although it ought to be considering the suffering, death and destruction that Marxism causes wherever and whenever it is tried. Prof. Wolff is a fine example of an educated man who is totally lacking common sense and critical reasoning faculties. … Continue reading "Marxism"

  • Emerging Normativities: Hybrid Public Lecture Series on Law, Governance, and Digital Technologies, University of Westminster Law School

    Updated: 2024-02-02 14:39:00
    : : , , , skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture February 2, 2024 Emerging Normativities : Hybrid Public Lecture Series on Law , Governance , and Digital Technologies , University of Westminster Law School From Daniela Gandorfer , Legal Scholar Co-Director of LoPh Founder of Code-X-Diagrams Blockchain Gov Consultant Westminster University School of Law I am writing to invite you to Emerging Normativities , 8217 a hybrid Public Lecture Series on Law , Governance , and Digital Technologies , at University of Westminster L:aw School and in collaboration with LoPH+ . In a nutshell , we ask : What happens at the new governmental frontier and who is drafting the social digital contract THE SERIES As climate change is shifting the

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